Well, as I've been preparing for music this Sunday I have concurrently been reading through John Piper's Don't Waste Your Life, and thinking a great deal about boasting only in the cross of Jesus Christ. As Piper puts it in his book, "Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain." Piper is expounding upon Paul's words in Philippians 3:7,8, where he says, "But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of CHrist. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus m Lord [...]" We must see our giving glory to God, through our salvation in Jesus Christ, as the all-consuming passion of our lives. In this we find the reason for which we were created, and we find fullness of joy in living this way.
Therefore, the songs for this Sunday center around the cross of Christ, and his resurrection from the grave that brings us eternal life. We'll start the morning off with Happy Day by Tim Hughes, which we introduced for the first time two weeks ago. It's a song of celebration in what Christ has accomplished, and speaks both of Christ's death/resurrection, and our hope of His return, and being with Him in heaven.
Second, we'll sing of the joy that it is to know Jesus Christ as our Savior, and worship Him as Lord of our lives in Blessed Assurance, a good old hymn by Fanny Crosby.
Third, we'll sing Because of Your Love, as we continue to meditate on what Christ has done for us, and that He did it all out of his mercy and love.
We'll end our singing with a There is a Redeemer, that sort of encompasses all of the themes of the previous songs - joy in what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross, his glorious resurrection that has brought us eternal life, and the glorious return of Christ and hope of Heaven.
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